Kindergarten homework: "deconstruct an integer into two addends in two different ways"

WTF?!

danmdevries wrote:

Joined the local gym today. After a week of sitting on my azz driving and eating shiatty food, I needed it....
So I'm getting into the pool... And I ask the guy in the lane a couple over from me if the pool has "pool buoys we can use, or if we have to bring out own"....

He looks at me like I have two heads and asks "Pool boys?"...


.....sigh.... Making friends already....

victor809 wrote:

Dan... Isn't that just subtracting a number into two different numbers? Or am I not getting the phrasing?

Like 6 = 2 and 4
And 6= 5 and 1

?

victor809 wrote:

this is not KG level ... maybe it should be?

our kids are falling behind the rest of the world in math and science knowledge...our high school grads are no longer near the top of the world's nations rankings...

delta1 wrote:

Joined the local gym today. After a week of sitting on my azz driving and eating shiatty food, I needed it....
So I'm getting into the pool... And I ask the guy in the lane a couple over from me if the pool has "pool buoys we can use, or if we have to bring out own"....

He looks at me like I have two heads and asks "Pool boys?"...


.....sigh.... Making friends already....

victor809 wrote: